The Vertical Transportation-Maintenance Management System (VTMMS) invention described herein is directed towards an automated system and method for monitoring, management, and maintenance of transportation equipment, including but not limited to escalators, elevators, moving walkways, baggage carousels, revolving doors, and automated doors. The system and method is also adaptable to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning units and other building equipment. The system and method collects data from the monitored equipment and preserves data that is related to equipment alarms, faults, failures, and maintenance requirements and activities as determined by monitoring software.
A system is provided for verifying operation of a plurality of alarm systems in a plurality of environmental equipment systems that comprises a plurality of first communication nodes and a plurality of second communication nodes. Each second communication node is typically mounted within a yard to about six hundred yards from respective first communication nodes. The first communication nodes send a first verification signal, e.g., a heartbeat signal to verify the alarm systems to the second communication nodes at first predetermined intervals. The plurality of second communication nodes detect when the first verification signal is not received at the first predetermined intervals. The second communication nodes then determine whether to send a malfunction notification to a server base on predetermined criteria. The second communication nodes may send a second heartbeat signal to the server at other predetermined intervals.
A system and a method for automating the management, reporting and tracking of compliance of monitored systems provides for collecting data specific to the compliance requirements of a monitored system, monitoring the periodic status of compliance, managing manually provided compliance requirements and reporting on compliance status whereby a multi-facility, multi-system compliance manager can manage compliance and a single facility, single system user can manage site or system-specific compliance. A monitoring management system comprises a plurality of devices, a gateway server and a host. Each device provides monitoring data associated with monitoring of a corresponding resource, the monitoring data for each particular device represented in a data format specific to that device. The gateway server includes a plurality of device ports, each device port connected to a corresponding device for receiving the monitoring data, a processor that processes the received data into a common format from the device-specific formats, and a communication port for communicating the processed data. The host is connected to the gateway server communication port over a communications network and has a receiver for receiving the communicated data, a parser for parsing the received data, and an auditor for auditing the parsed data.
